1961-10-03 — Page 6

Pago Ģ

IN

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1961,

AFTER 70 YEARS, NEW LIGHT IS THROWN ON THE BORDEN MYSTERY

Would you have

said Lizzie

was

guilty?

the strange, throbbing sunshine of an intensely hot August morning in 1892, Mr A. J. Borden, a retired undertaker, made his way home wards through the New England city of Fall River. The terrible heat made him walk slowly. But he would have halted altogether if he had known what was coming.

Mr Borden was ciderly and rich. For years he had advertised thot his Potent Casket Burial Cases would preserve the romains of loved ones for longer than any others.

So many people had taken his seat frar it that he HOW vir. tually controlled the city's four Varks. Mr Borden knew a lot

ut money.

What he did not know, as he trudged through the heal, was thd he would soon be faside one of his own patent caskets,

Let us look of the next few minutes through his eyes,

Just alter 10.45 E21 Je Tenebes bis strange, box-like werden house and rattles at the locked died. Bridget Sullivan. hi Trish maid, opens it. From the dark cool landing upstairs- so it will be reported later his 32-year-old 4. Lighter Lazzu gives a brief, luud laugh.

A

message

My Morden next decides 16 take

BOOKS by

ROBERT PITMAN

murderer was almost certainly not an intruder.

s not disputed that was Fizzle who arst gave the alarm about her father's death,

Asked where she had bren nt the time, she explained that she hari beg to the barn took- ing for some iron.

Radin, au American crime

writer, hus spent three years of the Borden case. research en

Ifis conclusion? He reveals not done by the murder was Lizzie Borden n all but by Bridgel, the Irish maki

In't that a sensational idea

Mr It la cosy to see why Radin's publishers are excited. Later. after doctor bask In America there has been s examines the body

the prompt chorus of delight (+$1 sola, a neighbour uskert Lizzie his work.

her step-mother (Alby was the second Mrs Borden).

at

snic

Christle, of Rillagtos-place, that he was "againsi Capital Punishment viple,"

on prin-

By citing her various ideals, Radin proves if anything that Lizzie had precisely that frustrated yearning for higher things which distinguishes cer- tain types of psychopathic

murderer.

What of Rudin's ease against | Bridget? It is simple,

He points out that Abby Borden told her; "Bridget, I

want you to wish these win- dows today." And he tells us himself worked on a case in which Bronx doctor's wife had been klited by a muid after scolding her for not cleaning room.

that a crime reporter he

That screely overwhelming argument is virtually Rodin's whole case.

Yet he does Add a new and really sensational piece of evidence. Ile tells us that Bridget eventually settled Anaconda, Moniana. None of her friends know of her con- nection with the Borden case, in 1942, when she was 75, she phoned one of these friends- Mrs Green-to say that she was dying and that she wanted secret before the to tell her a passed away, in fact, Bridget recovered and lived 1 1948. But Radin has discovered what she told Mrs Green. He writes:

bad

given her money to visit her parents in Ireland, and added that the Borden lawyer lad #lvised her to remain in fre-

fridget said her testimony And let me say at once that was favourable to Lizzie who, I am delighted too. Rodin's to show her gratitude, Lizzie said that Abby had details about the Barden been called out and mentioned household are fascinating-(for the note the had been sent. The first four days of that Then,

Gaming August week they ate Lizzie added: "I don't Enote ulion from the same vast but she is killed too, for I joint at almost every break- thought I heard for posing in," fast. Tauhean. and supper). Only then was Abby's murder diovered.

18

121

afterthuntight,

#

a rest on The solaire pashing a dress--which

His wife Abby---so Lizzie felly kim-has been called out by a message from a neighbour, He do not know that Abby, wa has in fact never left the house, is also taking a long long 1. As he stretches out on the sofa, her plum corpse, smushed hy bakelit, is alroudly stretch- E out in the bedroom,

The

Beete

Is set for

the

These farls have never been challenged. Also undisputed la that fa that. few days after the murder, Lizzie was

wita war "epperiti turint the kitchen stove, Or that an one ever admitted rending Mrs Borden

which in any case was never found).

her trial,

Wh

20

at

Or that al which she

acquitted, Lizzie decided that it was

Or that afterwards.

shared the Horten

with her sister Ema

having

fortune (who

Equally fascinating are the photographs. Look at Lizzie's Look at sweet-natured face. the idealism gleaming in her eyes. What a contrast with the which-like Bricket!

The only trouble la that when hirned to the text found that the eager Rudin, in- stead of Establishing Lizzie's itummence. only surrended In making me utterly certain of her Built:

is that

a

1 chief argument wher not fu give evidence. Lizzio, s far from being

ri, sonr, e thup-like person, was Intelligent, imorous, kind to animals (when one of her dogs died she would erect a memorial inscribed "Sleeping Awhile" above. Its grave In special cemetery; at her own death she left 30,000 dollars to the Animal Resenjë League).

a

whs away at the line of the second half of the event which murders), she lived it up in

myle andreumed name

her of by imbre and miserly papa.

entralise the

will Borden.

of

So, though there wa 1101 »tut evidence 10 convict

A

She was, moreover, exception- ally progressive-minded,

land and never return to the U.S. Bridgel said she bought a farm for her parents she became restless, obtained # passport under another name, And returned to this country, going to Anaconda, Bridget also said the bad testiffed only to the truth at ber trial"

Well, that explains every= thing, doesn't it?

Until now Ja has been clileull 10

Maka

DELIC ORDER, ACT

ALL MEETINGS, TASSEMBLIES, GROUPS. COMMITEES BANNED

AN, LAYING LEAN 46 SLEEPING, SLUMMING. LOLLING at SITTING FORBIDDEN.

. Detective Sergeant Snelling, Ghost Squad undercover man"

Landon Axpress Setsśce.

TYRES TO STOP SPACECRAFT

'BOUNCE'

Tests show they make perfect

cushion for delicate gear

SPACECRAFT due to make early landings on the impact by

other planets

may soften

touching down on huge rubber tyres.

Studles carried out by tyre maitfacturers show that a rub- ber ring would make a ideal cushion for a spaceship full of delicate scientific Instruments, and

made could be brunce.

nol 10

tille

The World

of Science

by Peter Fairïsy “

The lyre-space-age ("pneumaile decelerator"-could be deflated and packed around As it

From high up, to low down, always the sides of the vehicle.

have how stowed for landing, gas would Oceanographers

drawn Lizzle could have cleaned her-inflate the coated rubber fabrle up plans to drop a string of to the Satellites" "underse self of blood without anyone and urgees would swlay down -- SUCING her. Radin's discovery as iny' picture flustrates.

bottom of the Puckle next year. shows that Bridget almost cer- One such pneumatic decelera-

Each wll measure about tainly did see her and letor, designed and tested by the

foot in diameter ind contain ciled to keep quiet.

Goodyear Corporation, is made

measure tides, a up from a series of compart- Kauge to What does Radin say to allments.

record ocean- seismometer to bed tremors, butteries and this? Amazingly enough he leaps upon it in triumph an

radlo transmiter. Lead weights will keep them down. proof of Bridge's guilt. He

Each can be blown up inde- Then at a alghul fron

surface skip

the "satellites" pact, a quick-release

device win jettison their shackles, bob partially delates the compari- up and-in offical words"put

must ments bearing

out a flashing light and radio vehicle's walght → preventing signal just like an astronaut,” bunce.

Undesirable

says that Bridget intended to perdently of the others. On Im confess her guilt

thought

when she

then she was dying.

this story when

changed to

she recovered.

For as long as English is maken people will repeat;---

her, most sensible people have "Little Borden took an aæc concluded that-la ibat sinister

mother 10 heat and in a And

it of perindle ware her

She I may seem strange that whacks.

nerves-bizzin <list laddend set

Nadin welfart work and

appreciate whom did mach about her stepmolker, talact *

To alienated many of her friends significance of his own re she had always resenter),

search. by necepting an actress prevent her father finding out,

by companion. she then set about him 100.

When she

the

had done. She gave her father 41" Yet did Lizzie really do it? If he did, why were no blood- stains found m her clothes? And if she didn't do it, who did?

in dispute.

Sensational

Yet what does this amount to? Huigh, the neld-bath man, had a splendid sense of Immour. Patrick Mahon, the Crumbles killer, was devoted to animals.

cannel

the

of The

Bounce, on a planet such as The first

the Moon. Is particularly un-

4

#

most-

Instruments

and radio irans useful clues for the construc- mitters there is a pound of tion of human contrivances, strontium, It gives eff enough How does the tiny moth, avojd” heat to produce five watts of the bat? Why does a duck But then there have desirable, With only a sixth of

electrical power,

know friend from foc? Those always been writers who would Earth's gravity to pull it back. TRONTIUM 90, the

Special precautions have been are questions of blonies, like to prove that Abel really the spacecraft would rebound ✪ feared ingredient of fall-out taken to allminate oby danger murdered Caix or that Parlia quite way before settling from A-bombs, has its uses. One from the radio-active material, ment fried to blow up Guy again. Fawkes.

The Goodyear tests showed that anch Tyron can bring heavy loads sufoly to rest on hard,rocky or slupest surfaces, The principle is now belug used years. in the roenvery ut missiles Inside the duringtrials.

cylinder

A few facts hove never boen However, a book has been

What is really strange is that published which is entitled As for "progressive" ideas, there are always readers who For most of that hut, sim- LIZZIE BURDEN-The Untold Madeleine Smith, the not are simple-minded enough to mering morning the house was Story by Edward }, Radin proven nelsoner. eventually believe them, locked from the inside--so the (Gollancz, 218.)

Joined the Fabians. Even

After the von Trips crash,

I wondered how he was taking it

The man

HE

Milan.

was torn between two moods as he sat there on the bed, idly swinging his legs and talking quietly.

Phil lill, the world's new motor-facing champion,

the triumph of futflied

ambt-

flon and the sadness of person-

al loss strugding within

who

*~/London Express Service).

wears

the world's most

dangerous crown.

hin, He has no high-flown phillo enme secund

Sophy about his career. Why have raced

Hig victory in the Italian do I do it? Because I find I together. Grand Prix made m world motor race reasonably well and champion and in the mome race I do it safely.

his Ferrart team avale. VOI

Trips,

killed,

"I have never had an accid

Since then wa through the years

1048.

Phil Hill

The

masters

, unattended,

is to power the first automalle, even though the station in 16 years ago atomic weather station" which partially buried in a very remote THE GPD has just announced has just started to operate in the area, The strontium-90 hax Canadian Arctic, it will work been prepared in an aimest fresh plans to take part in

for about two indestruellate compound called American communications sutels.

strontium tanate, oncased in liter experiments next year. A eight-foot long leed and again in stainless steel, receiving und transmitting. of weather-recording The weather post the first station is being built on Gooμ- of a chain ilkely to be set up hlily Downs, Cornwall, for the ins Inaccessible areas. Since much

by

BASIL

CARDEW

purpose,

of the world's weather is "both" It is an interesting choles

In polar regions It is fullling

an especially important function.

Now ...

Bionics

From a spot three miles away, Marcon sent tils first trans- atiantle messafe.

J JA also interesting that Arthur C. Clarke, whose actionat ceries, A Fall of Moondust. was the Art

to moot

חוזת

To the ever-growling list of the Idea of communications

new sciences with puzzling mlelites in public. He did les-cybernetics and cryg- in a paper published 18 years genics are two examples fone is

ago. the study of communication and control mechanisms in humans and machines, the other the study of phenomena that occur ht very low temperatures)we Grand Prix cur--the type must now.add BIONICS.

It is the study of mechaulsena which has won him the world championship-only four years and systems in nature and the animal world whleh may hold

ago.

"I guess," he said, "It was after Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn were killed and tragically made room for me with the Ferraris."

Advice

10

You

So, unlike Stirling Moss, came when ho returned to Mike Hawthorn, Peter Collins, America. and other racing drivers whose Then," he said, "I started falbers had money,

FILIL the new selling racing cars to pay for

Rove this adviso "When a man who is part champion paid his own way. my racing.

ospiring racing drivers. of your routine goes out

"You must have an ex- like

He began racing in a light it in a stark and ghastly shock. And Then I raced a British MG.

treme desire to do it. The expecially when he is a cessful, You British make good TC model and was qulle muc-

best way is to find an old

and get some sports cars and racing cara.”

perience, especially in Eng. lund, where the standard of the sport is so high. And ха must have sound mechanical pennent lennt at the beginning.

Recently as we sat talking in nt in which I was hurt, (And hin hotel room in Milan 1 learn- don't touch wood. I'm not super- tú a lot about Ill and the sitio.)

friend." Just don't think of qualities that helped him to neckicuts which so much ma attain his dangerous erown,

controlled at

11

chinery must be

looks chancen,”

tow

meetings, people care to tak libe- ford the start of a race.

Shock

To school

"I was selling ears in which

few succeFACS I bind a

but which could still win races, That paid for me lo compete In the open American 2,000- inile road races for ibree

car

Cx-

“Then it is a matter of your being destined to do

n big job de not." Suddenly I sensed

I steered the conversalion Blim, introverted such high speeds.

away from the tragedy to learn American who sell inlles.

more about Hill and his career. "Too many other drivers are lie was born 34 Other racing drivers any he s

years ago in either unlucky or they may take Florida, is mother and father the most worried driver in the game and that he never

died 10 years ago. I wondered He reallend that to become years running. happy at race

whether they had left film Whe top-line driver it was neces "But most of the rncing enta money he needed to get himself sary to have sound mechanical I learned on had been

ownell launched as a racing driver, knowledge." "80" he said, "In by the old masters, Villores, But he gave one of his zaro the autumn of 1949 I went to Tarina, antt Ascari always on grius und Falt! It was the England and joined a number the cheop Inevitably, we

talked of the hard way for the-all the war buraltors, Jaguers, and I had n

of dervice sclidols, BU Car- His fral race with a Ferrari that he was thinking of was I luul to earn every dollar month with Rolls-Royce. That n

unoficially, von Trips again. may be an introvert. I concen- death of von Trips. "He

Phil trate. I have the normal nnxiet- a good driver," said

"I worked na'a mechanic' Jis des of other chaps. They may know him a long time. Actual Santa Monica garage during tie Brittah experience helped me to Then he got a place with the Hill was no longer in Ferrari term in the Le Mans the talking mood. So I hol appear se nervous on the ly, he hand his first rucu in day and al night I went off to become number one today. race of 1935. surface, but a lot goes on un- Bweden In 1000 when I had

But despite his long racing said good-bye. derneath."

my first win for Forral It

I told him this. He ran his

Angere through his thing

hair

and said; "Is that so? I

a shawroom 13 well ovira, But I The next step up In isla was never a goat malesund.” ⠀ brilliant, risk-ridden

was at thelma,

12-hour #poria car race.

Career career 11 Grat drove a

-(London Kupreus Boosta),

"An urlist's impression of

pneumatic decelerator." Top: the spaceship, in flight, with its "tyre folded.". Below: Landing: with the. decelerator

and Infinted braced for Impact.

(London Espress Servier):

“Henry doesn't allow the tally to stop. Ɛhim taking flöver för bie evening walk,